AS a bike-geek poseur (yes, it's truly sad when someone isn't even qualified to be a geek, so they have to be a geek wanna-be), i do get interested when the bike trade show season rolls around.
i will never get to go one, let alone own even the medium-zoot stuff that is on display at these things.
but, it's kinda ironic that the best coverage doesn't come from the journalistic sources that one might assume would know how to capture an event. sources such as velonews, cyclingnews.com or bike radar. their coverage is a hand full of pictures of product from their biggest advertisers and maybe some company who might start to advertise because they've started to supply a pro team. also, the pictures are as bland as the straight from the catalog marketing captions they regurgitate.
second best coverage award goes to competitive cyclist. yes, the discuss the brands they fence, but there is at least some detectable honesty in their commentary.
top podium spot goes to G R E A S E M O N K E Y, a blogger. there's an opinion there (so, agree or disagree or just listen) and the pictures are as much of the event as they are of the stuff you're supposed to drool over (but will never see the light of day in your bike shop's display cases).
4 years ago
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